The Buildings of Green Park
A tour of certain buildings, monuments and other structures in Mayfair and St James’s
Take a walk around a park loved by many but known by few. From the landmarks of Apsley House, The Ritz and Buckingham Palace to 150 Piccadilly, where Lord Elgin first displayed the Parthenon Marbles, The Buildings of Green Park captures the unseen history of the heart of Mayfair and St. James’s.
“This is at one level a book about a part of London and its buildings. At another, it’s a book about learning to savour our lives.”
Reviews
“This book is as beguiling as a book can be. From the first glimpse of its most agreeable small format – so satisfying to hold and with a cover that positively sings of the delights to be found within – you are charmed out of your wits […] I am not alone in being thus entranced: the brilliant foreword by Alain de Botton does not exaggerate when he declares that Andrew Jones has “a prodigiously well-stocked mind and heart … and is sensitive and knowledgeable about pretty much all the arts of all major cultures”.”
“Jones’s book is full of delights, even for the seasoned visitor to the environs around Green Park—the man who knows his Justerini & Brooks from his Berry Bros.”
“a charming, deeply well-informed guide to the amazing range of buildings which surround the park”
“meticulously researched [...] a concise insight into a slice of the capital’s architecture that many of us walk past, but which few of us appreciate”
“a lovely book that shines a dazzling light on this neglected corner of gilded London – and reveals heavenly collisions of history […] Andrew Jones, who lives near the park, is an excellent guide, particularly to its more obscure glories.”
“With an introduction by Alain de Botton, and photographs by the author and his wife, the artist Laura Hodgson, the project is the engaging product of a life upended by the pandemic.”
“Jones [...] is a passionate and informed cicerone. His observations are acute and amusing, and his book sits happily within the genre of strangers’ guides to the metropolis…”
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From REDSTONE PRESS
Edited by Julian Rothenstein / Texts by Charles Boyle
Foreword by Cornelia Parker